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Chapter 1529: Dummy (1)

Death Realm.

A furious roar rang out, "Audacious! Who dares to cross my kingdom?"

With a smile, He Tu said, "Sovereign Saberwolf, it's me, He Tu. I'm passing through on my way back to Grand Dream."

Not far away, a powerful wolf-like death sovereign appeared. He glared at He Tu's group. After a short moment, he focused on Xing Yue and snorted, "Xing Yue, you intruded upon my territory previously. Be thankful I was forgiving enough to spare you."

Xing Yue stared at the death sovereign coldly and sent Su Yu a voice transmission, "Kill him. Together."

Su Yu: "..."

He wanted to tell Xing Yue that she had changed.

He Tu was left quite speechless as well. He sent them a voice transmission, "Don't cause trouble. Nothing good will come of killing a death sovereign here. Furthermore, he's one of us. He'll be useful one day."

Then, He Tu said, "Sovereign, Saberwolf, Xing Yue did not mean any offense. Previously, she had to attend to an urgent matter. There was chaos in the Luminous Domain Mansion. We will throw you a feast as an apology for that in the future..."

"Chaos in the Luminous Domain Mansion?" The death sovereign thought about it and snorted, "I will forgive that out of respect for He Tu. I won't tolerate it a second time."

Xing Yue merely stared at him coldly, telling herself that she would kill him one day. Su Yu was uninterested in courting trouble for now. He only wanted to take a look at the aperture locations. This guy wouldn't be hard to kill. There was no rush.

In any case, Xing Yue was already friendly enough that he could enter the Death Realm at any time from Grandstar City.

Su Yu placated her, "Don't worry, Lord. Wait a few days. I'll kill him and make a feast out of his flesh for you."

"Hmph. It's disgusting to eat garbage like this."

Xing Yue replied with disdain. A similar scene had happened three times in their journey so far.

If Su Yu could be known as the expert socializer of the living, then He Tu could be known as the expert socializer of the dead. He seemed to be familiar with all the death sovereigns in the region. He knew all their names, and he could somehow strike up conversations with all of them.

Before long, they crossed the death kingdom. The so-called death kingdom was essentially a piece of desolate land with a large palace in the middle. But not all death sovereigns would bother to build a palace. Some would stay in a shack, and some wouldn't even bother to build a shack.

From Su Yu's perspective, these death sovereigns were all doing quite poorly. He also encountered a decent number of wandering death spirits. Some of the death sovereigns had regained a lot of their past memories, and these death sovereigns would have organized armies in their kingdoms.

It wasn't even hard to maintain the army of death spirits as food was not an issue for the dead. For the most part, the death sovereigns ruling such kingdoms would also be stronger than regular death sovereigns.

As for the disordered kingdoms, their death sovereigns were either ones with few past memories or ones who had just started regaining their past memories. Su Yu even encountered two silly death sovereigns akin to Dummy. Those death sovereigns had only stared blankly as the group flew past their kingdoms. They wouldn't do anything unless they were attacked first.

In fact, He Tu was tempted to land on the ground and try fooling them into becoming his thugs, but he eventually gave up. Perhaps they were too stupid for his taste as well.

Eventually, Su Yu grumbled, "This damn place is too stuffy and boring. The boredom alone is enough to kill."

He Tu and Xing Yue glared at him. What was it again?

Su Yu rolled his eyes and said, "Esteemed lords, what do death sovereigns do in their free time?"

He Tu smiled and said, "We have a lot of things to do. Firstly, we organize our armies in preparation for an invasion against the world of the living. Secondly, I fight the old turtle and keep him too busy to deal the death qi in his body. Thirdly, I recruit other death sovereigns in preparation for a war against the living. Fourthly, I explore the Celestial River of Death to strengthen myself. Fifthly..."

He listed a lot of things, making it clear that he was a busy death sovereign.

As for Xing Yue, she was stuck for a long while before finally saying, "Cultivate."

That was all. She had nothing else to do. Su Yu was left quite speechless. How boring. Also, why was she still so weak after spending so much time cultivating? Just look at He Tu and his fulfilling life. He was truly worthy of being the main character of the first epoch.

In truth, Su Yu was quite interested in He Tu. He said, "Lord He Tu, I have been curious about one thing. How did you lead the army of the dead into the world of the living back then?"

That was a very important question.

He Tu grinned, "Are you thinking of learning what I did?"

"Somewhat."

"Why should I tell you?"

Su Yu thought about it and answered, "Fate. Fate intends this. We are both humans. We have both opened 360 acupoints. We both know the reversal method. We're both men. We have both entered the Luminous Domain Mansion. See, there are so many similarities between us. This is fate."

"..."

He Tu was left completely speechless, but he couldn't help but see some truth in that.

He Tu smirked and asked, "Are you thinking of luring death sovereigns out to fight for you? It's not that hard. Since you know the reversal method, you naturally have the way to convert source qi into death qi. When the concentration of death qi in a specific area reaches a certain level, you will notice the weakening barrier between worlds. You can then break through the barrier and release the death sovereigns. Of course, you need to reach an agreement with the death sovereigns first. Otherwise, you will lose control over the death sovereign and..."

He Tu sighed and said, "Back then, everything was progressing smoothly for me. Eventually, some uncontrollable death sovereigns came out and killed the living recklessly, provoking the fury of the old turtle. What a pity."

Xing Yue sneered at him, "You deserved it. How can death sovereigns be controlled so easily?"

He Tu sneered back, "What do you know?"

It was indeed an accident. Back then, he had reached an agreement with some death sovereigns in the Death Realm. But some wandering death sovereigns had joined in and messed up his plan. When those bastards saw an exit, they rushed out in excitement and started going wild. He Tu was too busy to even notice them. That was the reason for his eventual defeat.

He Tu said, "Even if you can lure them out, they won't be easy to control. They can go crazy way too easily, resulting in the fury of the laws. And the thirty-six guardians are the enforcer of the heavenly laws out there. The old turtle might seem helpful right now, but when you do something wrong, he won't hesitate to kill you."

Su Yu nodded. After thinking for a bit, he said, "Back when you waged war at the helm of all the death sovereigns, you had avoided the fury of the heavenly laws during the initial phase."

After a short pause, Su Yu continued, "There were probably multiple reasons for that. Firstly, the death spirits were firmly under your control. Secondly, you were able to pull away the death qi from the ancient city. Thirdly, you were able to provoke your enemies into challenging the heavenly laws instead. Fourthly, you refrained from killing indiscriminately. Fifthly, you were able to prevent the death qi from spreading uncontrollably. Am I right, Lord?"

"More or less."

He Tu was quite surprised. He said, "If you can fulfill all those conditions, you will be able to conquer the Myriad Realms with the death spirits. But you need to clean things up properly. You have to keep absorbing the death qi in the air to avoid it from spreading too much in the world of the living."

In truth, the main goal of the heavenly laws was the prevention of the spread of death qi in the world of the living.

He Tu said, "In the world of the living, you need to absorb all the death qi you produce within three days. Otherwise...you're dead."

He Tu had mixed feelings as he spoke. That was how he had fallen back then. Several bastards had been running everywhere to spread chaos, forcing him to run everywhere and absorb their death qi. In the end, he wasn't fast enough. Because of those bastards, he had died.

He pointed at Su Yu and warned, "You also need to remember one thing. The principle of equal exchange."

"What?" He Tu asked, "No matter how many living beings the death spirits kill, you need to kill an equal number of death spirits and preserve the balance." "Or to be precise, the balance of life and death. A slight imbalance will be fine, but when it exceeds a certain level, the heavenly laws will take action."

Su Yu kept that in mind. Sure enough, seeking advice from his elders was much better than trying blindly. Follow current ɴᴏᴠᴇʟs on NoveI~Fire.net

Xing Yue coldly said, "I won't fight for you. Dream on."

Su Yu nodded indifferently and said, "Good. You should stay in your kingdom. Please don't leave. Please don't die. I don't want to lose my position as a mayor."

He Tu laughed and said, "It's fine. I can convert you after Xing Yue dies. No, wait, forget that. You're too dangerous. Your heaven acupoint is half-opened. I don't want to get sucked dry by you."

Clearly, he knew about the yang acupoint as well.

He added, "You sure are brazen to open the heaven acupoint rashly like this. Even back then, very few people had the courage to open it. The heaven acupoint wasn't a secret back then, but most people wouldn't touch it unless absolutely necessary. That's a very troublesome acupoint. How many cultural researchers have the confidence to open 360 acupoints?

"How many warriors have the confidence to open 360 apertures? Failure to fully open the heaven acupoint is the same as suicide. Thus, most people would only make the attempt upon opening all the apertures and acupoints. Some would do it when they were near opening all the apertures and acupoints. At that point, they would have the ability to close it upon failure to fully open it."

Chapter 1530: Dummy (2)

Su Yu nodded helplessly, "I have to find the acupoints all by myself. I have no way of knowing all that."

Freak.

That was He Tu's conclusion. How could one find the acupoints themselves? How crazy. What else could he say? The heaven acupoint was supposed to be a legend. It should no longer exist. However, Su Yu had somehow found it without any guidance.

"Are you sure you can open all the apertures, including the yin aperture? If you fail, your so-called yang acupoint will kill you one day. The stronger you grow, the stronger the absorptive power it will have. How much longer do you think Xing Yue can sustain you?"

Su Yu said nothing, but he was sure he wouldn't have an issue with this. He only needed to open 360 apertures. And he had already opened 290 of them. It shouldn't be too difficult. He was simply too talented.

Even Su Yu himself was impressed by his talent. What incredible talent. It was hard for him to judge whether his talent was original or if it was simply a contribution of the golden book in his head.

If it was truly his original talent...how incredible.

"It won't be as surprising if it's due to the golden book."

If the golden book was truly something left behind by the previous Time Sage, it might be powerful enough to even boost his talent and aptitude.

Su Yu still remembered that he had not entered the Death Realm just for exploration. He had an important business here. He had to be fast. They wasted no time and continued traveling. After crossing the territories of several other death sovereigns, they started approaching a gigantic river.

"The entrances are somewhere over there." He Tu pointed ahead of them and said, "Previously, a black hole appeared there when I was in a conversation with Dummy. What you want to see is in there. There are no other death sovereigns in the area..."

Just then, a rumble rang out. He Tu had been slapped across his face before he could even finish his words. A battle between death sovereigns had erupted nearby. Who? How dare they humiliate him?

Both Su Yu and He Tu hid their presence without saying anything to each other. Meanwhile, Xing Yue prepared to release her aura and announce the arrival of her great self. But before she could do that, she stopped and looked at her two companions speechlessly.

Were they supposed to hide their presence here? Weren't death sovereigns supposed to strut everywhere bravely? Why should death sovereigns do something like hiding? After blanking out momentarily, Xing Yue started withdrawing her aura stiffly.

Meanwhile, He Tu looked completely at ease doing this. Some habits would carry over even in death. For him, this was completely natural.

"Three!" He Tu said, "Two against one. I think...Dummy is being beaten by two death sovereigns." Dummy might have returned here. Did he catch the eyes of some other death sovereigns?

He Tu was unsure as the auras of death spirits were quite similar to each other. Mindless and newly awakened death sovereigns like Dummy were the favourite targets of some death sovereigns as these were easy targets to kill for some benefits.

Each of the combatants felt rather strong. Clearly, Dummy had encountered powerful opponents.

After giving it some thought, He Tu looked at Su Yu and said, "Your aura is weaker. You can come with me. As for Xing Yue, just wait here. I'll take a look. If they're really attacking Dummy..."

Su Yu hurriedly answered, "Act friendly before finding a chance to attack them. Take them down without holding back. Lord He Tu can pretend to be their friend, while I'll pretend to be a Pseudo Invincible. We will stab them in the back."

"That's my plan as well."

He Tu nodded with satisfaction. It sure felt amazing to communicate with a living being. Dummy or Xing Yue would be much harder to communicate with. Xing Yue would probably say something like death sovereigns shouldn't be so shameless instead.

How boring.

He Tu longed to return to life. Living as a death spirit was too boring.

That was why he had agreed to help Su Yu. That was why he had brought Su Yu here so easily. He also hoped that Su Yu would gain the ability to convert death spirits. Even if he had to fall under Su Yu's control as a result, he still wished to return to life. Nothing was more important than that.

Su Yu did not forget to placate Xing Yue. He solemnly said, "Lord, this place is very important. We will be relying on you to watch our backs. If we were to make a mistake and allow them to escape, please stop them or we would be in great trouble."

Xing Yue disliked how He Tu spoke, but she felt much better after hearing Su Yu's words. She replied coldly, "I naturally know what to do."

"..."

Done!

She would obediently stay here. Su Yu added, "Lord, I suggest you find a safe place. I might need to borrow your strength during emergencies!"

"..."

This time, Xing Yue said nothing. Instead, she was terrified at the prospect of having Su Yu borrow her strength. She deeply agreed that she needed to find a safe hiding spot. Naturally, that wasn't because she was afraid of danger. She simply disliked having others see her weakened.

That would be too embarrassing.

***

Before long, Su Yu and He Tu started flying toward the Celestial River of Death. The nearer they were, the thicker the death qi in the air was.

Su Yu even absorbed some of the death qi in his body with his yang acupoint to prevent the death qi in his body from reaching enough density to invade his heart. Eventually, they were close enough to see the ongoing battle. Three death sovereigns were fighting without saying anything.

One of them was a familiar face. That was none other than Dummy.

Dummy felt weaker than before. Perhaps he had yet to recover from his battle with Blood Fire. Thus, the two armored death sovereigns were able to suppress him in the battle.

The look in He Tu's eyes changed as he sent a voice transmission, "These are the local overlords, the Double Alpha Tigers. Both of them are seventh-degree Eternals. Their territory is not far away from my kingdom. We warred against each other several times before. Prior to their deaths, they were the experts of the tiger race. Both were killed by a super expert at the same time before awakening together down here. Together, they founded their dead tiger kingdom here."

"They are difficult opponents, and they have a terrible temper. I tried recruiting them multiple times, but they rejected me each time. Looks like Dummy has been seriously injured. Just look at his leaking death qi. The two tigers are clearly trying to kill and consume his death qi. They won't be easy to backstab since they know me. We aren't friendly."

Even expert socializers would have people they couldn't socialize with. And these tigers were clearly among those he couldn't handle. He Tu had tried recruiting and fighting them several times, but he hadn't been able to do much to them.

Alone, neither of them was He Tu's match. Together, He Tu wasn't their match. After several failed attempts at recruiting or subduing them, He Tu gave up. Surprisingly, he was reuniting with them in such a situation.

Su Yu appeared unworried as he said, "Lord, I'll pretend to be a mindless death spirit and approach them slowly."

"Fool! Even mindless death spirits fear death sovereigns. They won't have the courage to approach one."

Was that the case?

Su Yu said, "In that case, I'll pretend to be a greedy death spirit trying to fish in troubled waters. My aura is weak. If they are overbearing enough, they will definitely attack me out of annoyance. I will take the chance to kill one and you can deal with the other."

"Are you sure?" He Tu was doubtful of this plan. He said, "I often encounter unreliable fellows who will mess up even a tiny task. Are you sure you can do this?"

"Yes."

Su Yu was left quite speechless. How could he mess up something so simple? Using all his strength, he could kill or a least cripple one of them. And death spirits were never known for their flexibility in combat. Only their death qi was scary, but that was not something Su Yu feared.

The greatest advantage a death spirit had over a living being during combat was their death qi as they could either corrode the source qi of the living or convert the living into a death spirit during combat.

Without that advantage, death spirits would be weaker than their living counterparts since they lacked intelligence and control over the power of laws.

***

Su Yu said nothing and vanished with a flicker.

Then, he slowly released his aura. He moved about sneakily with a greedy expression and slowly approached the three battling death sovereigns. All three death sovereigns noticed him.

The two tigers focused on him slightly before snorting with disdain.

Weakling.

That must be a Pseudo Invincible or a fresh death sovereign who had just gained some intelligence. But his intelligence was clearly not too impressive since he lacked the ability to control his own greed. Why did he think that he could hide from them? Was he delusional?

"Little Brother, kill him."

"You go, Big Brother."

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This would be a big harvest. Consuming this target would guarantee advancement if only one of them consumed him. This target wouldn't be quite enough to support the advancement of both of them.

And now, someone was here to steal from them. Normally, a Pseudo Invincible would also be a delicious target for them. But now that a far more attractive target was before them, they had zero interest on Su Yu. Both were afraid that the other would monopolize their main target when one left.

"You go, Little Brother." The elder of the two said, "Don't worry. This fellow won't die so soon. Just kill that weakling and come back. There is plenty of time. Don't give the weakling a chance to ruin things for us. An injured and mindless death sovereign so powerful is very rare. We need to finish things up here as soon as possible."

The younger tiger was unwilling to go, but he agreed that his elder brother was right. After a short struggle, he shot toward Su Yu. In the blink of an eye, he crossed several kilometers. Upon seeing the approaching death sovereign, Su Yu hurriedly retreated with an expression of panic.

"Hmph!"

The younger tiger snorted with disdain. Could this fellow even escape him? How dare this fellow waste his time like this? Because of this fellow, he had to risk losing his share of their main prey to his elder brother. He moved at his top speed and clawed at Su Yu's head, intending to finish this with one hit.

He was greatly annoyed by the audacity of this weakling.

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Su Yu started fleeing clumsily.

Inwardly, he was lamenting that death spirits were indeed easy to fool. These fellows had taken the bait without any thought. Then again, this was understandable. This was the Death Realm. The dead were not known for their cunning. That might be why.

Fine, fine. Su Yu decided to be kind and teach them a lesson. They might be dead, but one could still learn after dying, right? He opened his yang acupoint and slowly released the seal around his heart. His death qi started fading away even as he started borrowing a bit of Xing Yue's strength.

He only needed to do one thing: punch his opponent.

If one punch was not enough, he would punch a few more times.

Just as the younger tiger's claws reached the back of Su Yu's head, he coldly said, "Die, Kid!"

Suddenly, Su Yu turned around and threw a punch. The tiger did not even bother to avoid the attack. There was no way he would miss such a target. Just before his punch struck, he wondered if there were heavenly rewards for killing death sovereigns.

Probably not.

He had killed quite a lot of death spirits before, but he had never been rewarded for it. He could harvest their blood essence, but their blood essence wasn't too useful for him. No, that wasn't right. Perhaps he could open a new page for the death spirits.

A new idea emerged in Su Yu's mind. Yes. There was that option. It would be a waste not to store such a powerful death spirit in his book. The death spirit race was also a race. Even if they weren't considered a proper race, it was his own book he was filling. If he decreed them a race, they would be a race.

Boom!

A deafening rumble rang out. The younger tiger didn't even have the chance to say anything. The only thing he felt was shock. Was he hit? Then, his body burst apart, sending his flesh, bones, and blood everywhere.

The elder tiger blanked out slightly. Just as he turned his head to look in Su Yu's direction, a palm appeared behind him.

He Tu.

He Tu was feeling incredibly excited. His feelings were also slightly mixed about this. Sure enough, working with the living felt a lot better. When Su Yu promised to do something, he would do it. When He Tu recalled his experiences cooperating with death spirits before, he felt like coughing blood from anger. Death spirits were too hard to work with.

They would always mess things up when it mattered. This was his perfect opportunity to deal with the two tigers. They were his greatest enemies in the region. With them out of the way, he would be the hegemon of this region.

His palm landed, causing cracks to appear on the body of the elder tiger. With a blank expression, Dummy threw a punch at the tiger as well. Then, Dummy stared at He Tu blankly. He Tu ignored Dummy and continued attacking. The tiger was injured, but a death sovereign wouldn't die so easily. He had to completely destroy the body to finish the job.

***

At the same time.

Su Yu pulled his book out and enlarged it. Hundreds of Sunmoon projections emerged from the book before devouring the scattered remains of the death sovereign. Finally, he grabbed a crystal-like item and stared at it doubtfully. Was this the so-called death imprint?

He had never gotten something like this from the weak death spirits he had killed in the past. What could he do with this? Previously, he had heard from both He Tu and Xing Yue that the death qi and death imprint were the main goals of death spirits when killing other death spirits.

Within the translucent crystal, a struggling miniature tiger could be seen. Su Yu did not spend much time on it and resealed his heart before storing the crystal in his book.

***

A short while later.

He Tu roared with laughter as he praised, "Well done, Su Yu!"

"It's no big deal."

Su Yu smiled. With how dumb the death spirits were, how hard could killing them be? This was truly not a big deal for him.

Killing these death sovereigns felt much easier than killing Blood Fire. Even when Blood Fire was greatly injured, there was still a risk of having him turn the situation around. Meanwhile, such risk was nonexistent when facing the two tiger death sovereigns.

He Tu said in excitement, "This is not a small deal. I have been having a hard time dealing with the two of them at once. When I recruited help, the other death sovereigns were too unreliable. They would always mess things up at the end. It was so annoying."

Su Yu laughed. When he noticed the crystal in He Tu's hand, he asked, "Lord, is this a death imprint?"

"Yes." He Tu smiled, "This is a treasure. These brothers were ancient experts. They were already seventh-degree Eternals right after awakening. Consuming their imprints will strengthen my imprint and return more of my memories. It is helpful in gaining more strength and intelligence."

He looked at Su Yu and said, "You must have received one as well. Since you can't use it, you might as well give it to me. I will hand the other treasures I don't need to you later."

Su Yu smiled, "Not this time. My imprint is reserved for Lord Xing Yue."

Not far away, the weakened Xing Yue walked out of her hiding place. When she heard that, she coldly said, "I don't need it!" The rıghtful source is novel✶fire.net

Su Yu said, "What are you saying, Lord? I am your loyal subordinate. Have you forgotten that? What's mine is yours and what's yours is mine. Lord, this is my contribution. You only need to bestow me with a small reward to thank me."

He was using the same trick on Xing Yue.

And it was incredibly effective. Xing Yue pretended to sink into thought for a while before coldy saying, "I will kill a few Eternals for their carrier treasures as your reward."

"Thank you, Lord!"

As he said that, he tossed the crystal over. Xing Yue caught the crystal with a satisfied expression. The tiger brothers were not death sovereigns she could kill or she would have killed them long ago. Thus, this imprint could be considered a valuable treasure for her as well.

"Not bad."

Xing Yue even deigned to give Su Yu praise, even if she sounded quite stiff saying it. This was a tolerable subordinate to have. She had made the right choice in converting him back then.

She even gave He Tu a provocative stare, reminding him that Su Yu was her subordinate, not his.

He Tu couldn't even be bothered to react.

He was happy with the crystal he had obtained. He looked at Dummy and said in astonishment, "Hey! Why do you still look so dumb after consuming the life death fruit?"

He asked curiously, "Dummy, do you still remember me?"

"He...He Tu..."

Dummy replied with the same blank look. He Tu nodded with satisfaction. Not bad. Dummy still remembered him.

"Dummy, you seemed to have regained some memories previously. So who are you?"

Dummy stared at He Tu before staring at Su Yu. A look of clarity and confusion alternated in his eyes repeatedly for a long while before he answered, "Grave...Gravekeeper..."

"..."

He Tu blanked out slightly before asking, "Gravekeeper? Which grave? There were a lot of gravekeepers back then."

Meanwhile, Su Yu's eyes flickered as he asked, "Gravekeeper? The grave of Culture King?"

"..."

After struggling with himself for a long while, Dummy nodded.

"The previous Gravekeeper?"

Su Yu frowned. The person with the Culture Tomb would be the Gravekeeper, right?

He hurriedly asked again, "Do you know Liu Wenyan?"

Was this Ye Batian? Dummy stood there blankly with no response.

"Ye Batian?"

Dummy continued blanking out, as though he was in deep thought.

Su Yu raised his brow. He didn't even know Ye Batian? Wasn't the Gravekeeper supposed to be related to the multiple character faction?

Multiple character faction. First principal, Xia Chen. Third principal, Nan Wujiang. Fifth principal, Ye Batian...they all came from the same line. As for the second and fourth principals, they weren't from the multiple character faction.

Thus, the line began with Xia Chen, followed by Nan Wujiang, followed by Ye Batian, Yun Chen, and Wan Tiansheng, followed by Liu Wenyan, Xia Longwu, and Hong Tan, followed by Bai Feng, and Chen Yong, before finally reaching Su Yu and Wu Jia.

Suddenly, Su Yu thought of something and exclaimed, "Principal Xia Chen!"

The third principal was not dead, and Ye Batian did not seem to have inherited the position of the Gravekeeper. Rather, he had inherited the position of a titled general. If this was the Gravekeeper, this must be...Xia Chen. The first principal.

Su Yu was greatly surprised. Xia Chen was indeed someone familiar with Great Qin King. He was someone from Great Xia King's generation, the cousin of Great Xia King.

He had founded the Great Xia Cultural Research Academy and the Knowledge Seeking Realm. He had also founded the multiple character faction. One could say that without Xia Chen, a lot of things wouldn't have existed or happened in the Human Realm.

Su Yu was unaware of how Xia Chen had died. He only recalled that Xia Chen had yet to affirm his dao prior to his death. In that case, how could the powerful Dummy be Xia Chen?

With a struggling look in his eyes, Dummy said, "You...you are..."

"Do you know Nan Wujiang?"

"I...I..."

He Tu said, "Stop asking. His memories are unstable. He might need a death imprint to stabilize his memories. Xia Chen? How interesting. Is this the character pioneer of the tenth epoch?"

That was a name even He Tu knew.

In fact, even Xing Yue knew this name. She looked at him doubtfully and asked, "He's Xia Chen? I met Xia Chen once back then. Clad in his fluttering white robes and equipped with one sword, he roamed the Myriad Realms and dominated the various experts. How is he so stupid?"

Su Yu rolled his eyes. What stupid question was that? He was dead. How smart could he be? Also, what was that about fluttering white robes? Was she talking about her? Did Xia Chen have the same preference as well?

Dummy gnashed his teeth and struggled to say more, "I...guard...grave...Culture Tomb...inauspicious...multiple character faction...discard it..."

Suddenly, Dummy punched the ground and released a burst of aura. Then, he calmed down again. His nature as a death spirit finally prevailed, suppressing the tiny bit of memories he had. Once again, he stood there blankly.

He Tu rubbed his chin and said, "Don't bother asking more. His memories are suppressed again. Looks like he's keeping some major secrets. He might have sealed his memories prior to his death. It won't be easy unsealing those memories after death."

Meanwhile, Su Yu's heart was thumping madly.

Culture Tomb!

Inauspicious?

This wasn't the first time he heard this. But why had he never felt anything inauspicious about it? The old turtle had said the same thing before. A big shot like the old turtle wouldn't give such a warning for no reason. Was the Culture Tomb really problematic? But why couldn't he feel anything?

He stared at Dummy and frowned. Was that really Xia Chen? The first principal...and the Gravekeeper.

Did he become the Gravekeeper through his ownership over the Culture Tomb? Or had he always been the Gravekeeper? Had he been in the ruin all along before leaving with the Culture Tomb?

Numerous thoughts emerged in Su Yu's mind.

"I need to learn more about Xia Chen after returning."

He had never paid much attention to the first principal before this. Compared to the fifth principal, the first principal was far less popular. In fact, Su Yu didn't even know Xia Chen's name during his time in the academy. He had only learned of that name in the Hundred Dao Pagoda.

He didn't know anything about Xia Chen's death. He only knew that the willpower grotto was left behind by Xia Chen. And that was an incredible grotto.

"Nan Wujiang might know more."

Nan Wujiang was the student of the first principal. The first principal had died not long after the founding of Great Xia. Was there a special reason behind his death? More importantly, how was Dummy so strong if he was the first principal?

Even He Tu was only a seventh-degree Eternal after awakening. And Dummy was about as strong as He Tu. Was he supposed to be a ninth-degree Eternal prior to his death? Was that a joke?

Why couldn't Dummy recover all his memories right now? Why couldn't he explain more about why the Culture Tomb was inauspicious?

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Dummy couldn't give a clear answer.

But he might really be Xia Chen, the first principal.

At that thought, Su Yu's emotions became complicated as he looked at Dummy. The first principal was someone who had left a deep mark on humanity in the tenth epoch. He was the ten epoch's multiple character faction founder.

Someone like him had transformed into a death spirit with barely any of his past memories left. Death imprints and life death fruits could help restore some of his memories. Su Yu wasn't too interested on anything else, but he had a deep interest in the Culture Tomb. Suddenly, he looked at He Tu.

Sensing that, He Tu's expression changed. What was that look? Didn't Su Yu get a death imprint not long ago? He had given it to Xing Yue. Shouldn't he be taking it back from Xing Yue instead?

He Tu was a very smart man. Even after becoming a death spirit, he could still see what Su Yu was thinking. With a smile, Su Yu sent a voice transmission, "Lord, you're too strong. A single imprint won't do much for you. If you really need these imprints, we can join hands and gather some. The Death Realm is basically a death imprint farm. When my apertures are finally open, we can kill as many death sovereigns as you need. See this as an investment. A zero risk investment..."

Su Yu spoke as if death sovereigns were cabbages he could harvest anytime and anywhere.

He Tu had a gloomy look as he said, "Zero risk? I don't think so. When you leave the Death Realm, you will be in great trouble. Do you think I know nothing?"

Was this a joke? Someone like Su Yu would never live in peace and calm. Wherever he went, he would cause countless troubles. How was this a zero-risk investment?

Su Yu said, "Lord, we are both main characters of an epoch. You should understand just how hard it is for people like us to die. I might die in the future, but not before I do enough. And that should be enough for you to reap a great return in your investment."

"Heh. The main character of the second epoch died very early. He was slapped into mincement by a passing Pseudo Emperor right after he rose in power."

"..."

Su Yu asked blankly, "A human?"

"Yeah." He Tu said, "Yes. A human. He had just risen in power. After affirming his dao, he started killing seventh-degree Eternals as a mere fourth-degree Eternal. And then...his story ended. A random old fossil who was passing by slapped him to death."

Instantly, Su Yu cursed. Holy shit! Did that really happen? Poor guy.

Sure enough, the Myriad Realms were so massive that anything could happen. What a pitiful main character of an epoch. With the strength to kill seventh-degree Eternals, he was most certainly not weak. Yet he had been slapped to death by a random old monster. That must have felt terrible.

"Lord, did he awaken as a death spirit?"

"I'm not sure."

He Tu shook his head. The Death Realm was too big. How was he supposed to know that? Even if that fellow had awakened, he might choose to hide his past. Or perhaps he couldn't even remember his past.

He Tu couldn't be bothered to say more. He looked at Dummy and tossed the imprint over. Su Yu was right. With his strength, the imprint wouldn't do much for him even if it would still be quite beneficial for him.

But Su Yu was right about one thing. This was an investment. His cooperation with Su Yu had been quite smooth thus far.

Dummy merely caught the imprint before standing there blankly. He Tu rolled his eyes and said, "Absorb it."

At that, Dummy stared at the imprint blankly. Then, he started absorbing it instinctively. As he did that, He Tu said, "Let's leave. The battle earlier had been quite loud. More death spirits might arrive soon. He won't be able to finish the absorption anytime soon."

Su Yu nodded. And thus, they started moving deeper into the area in search of the black hole He Tu mentioned earlier.

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Inside a relatively prominent kingdom in the Death Realm, a massive city stood. Inside the city, a forest of dark palaces could be seen. Numerous figures were walking back and forth in these palaces. In the Death Realm, anyone below the Pseudo Invincible would merely roam around mindlessly.

Inside a large hall.

Several death spirits sat cross-legged. Before them, a large mirror could be seen. It was similar in shape with Great Ming's Super Sensory Jade.

Suddenly, a death spirit opened his eyes and looked at the black dots in the mirror. Just moments ago, two of the dots had vanished. The death spirit frowned and said, "The two tigers of the twenty-eighth region of the east had vanished. Record this down. It is unknown if they have died or been transferred by the laws. He Tu, Xing Yue, and the newly awakened person were nearby when it happened."

He focused on the dots of light representing He Tu and noted a reddish black dot beside He Tu. He said, "Is there an outsider with He Tu and Xing Yue?"

A smaller death spirit opened his eyes as well. After a long pause, he said, "It's hard to judge. Should we send some scouts over? That might be a newly converted death spirit or a pseudo death spirit."

"Forget it. The twenty-eighth region of the east is quite far away. They will be long gone by the time our scouts are there."

The first death spirit said, "Pay more attention to the east. Previously, something happened in the Luminous Domain Mansion. Over twenty death sovereigns near the thirtieth region vanished. This is a big loss. Stop the transference for now. Do not allow more death spirits to enter the Luminous Domain Mansion."

"Is anyone aware of what's happening in the Luminous Domain Mansion? Is Devote King's Source Return Blade going crazy?"

"It's hard to judge."

"..."

A different death spirit asked, "Do we report this to the great king?"

"No. This isn't important enough to disturb the great king's seclusion. But report it to the Darkmoon Marquis."

"There are quite a lot of awakened humans in the east. We should hand this matter to Marquis Lanshan instead."

After discussing among themselves, they decided to report the incident.

The tiger brothers were strong. Both were seventh-degree Eternals upon awakening. The deaths of such powerful death sovereigns indeed required attention. Of course, they also needed to give it some time. If the tiger brothers had merely been transferred by the laws, they would return before long.

They only needed to wait three days. Even the transference of laws would only allow the tiger brothers to stay in the world of the living for three days. Done with their discussion, the death spirits shut their eyes again. Meanwhile, numerous dark dots continued moving all over the mirror. They differed in size, and some were also reddish black like Su Yu's dot.

These were mostly the dots of newly awakened or pseudo death spirits. These people weren't that rare in the Death Realm. Nobody would even notice Su Yu if it wasn't for the fact that he was staying with He Tu and Xing Yue.

Then again, very few cared about him right now. They were more concerned about He Tu. Without the tiger brothers around, would He Tu start creating trouble there?

***

At the same time.

Su Yu's tribulation character pulsed slightly. Curious, he looked around. However, he saw nothing. His surroundings were still completely empty.

He Tu asked, "What is it?"

"Nothing much. I felt a small sense of danger..."

"That's normal in the Death Realm."

He Tu was unconcerned about that. The Death Realm was filled with dangers. That was no big deal.

Furthermore, the Celestial River of Death was ahead of them. That place would be far more dangerous than any other place. After looking around cautiously, He Tu shook his head and said, "It's fine. If the danger sense isn't reacting too intensely, it won't be anything out of the ordinary."

He would not underestimate Su Yu's danger sense because Su Yu was different. If it were anyone else, he wouldn't have bothered to even give it a second thought.

Su Yu nodded and said, "With you around, we'll naturally be fine."

He paused slightly and continued, "It's the twenty-first day. I need to return within nine days to make some preparations for the closure of the mansion. Lord, how much further are we?"

"We're near."

He Tu rolled his eyes. This guy must be planning to do something crazy again after leaving the Death Realm. The two stopped talking about Su Yu's triggered danger sense, but they did increase their wariness due to that little episode. One could never be too cautious.

Then again, their group was already quite strong. Dummy was a seventh-degree Eternal. Including He Tu and Su Yu, they could face quite a lot of challenges. Xing Yue was weaker, but she was still a middle-degree Eternal.

Thus, regular dangers would not be able to threaten them. So long as they didn't face a ninth-degree Eternal or a Daofuse, they would be fine. Even ninth-degree Eternals would differ greatly in strength.

People like Great Qin King, Heaven Department head, and Blood Fire Devil King could be considered the top experts among ninth-degree Eternals.

While walking, Su Yu asked, "Where are all those human kings, Pseudo Emperors, marquises, and titled generals from the ancient past? Why have we not met any here?"

"Some are still in the Celestial River of Death, and some might have awakened and roamed away..." He Tu said, "If we keep going eastward, we can encounter a few familiar faces. You can take a trip there when you have the time. Many of them used to be humans before dying, but most of them are quite mindless nowadays."

Meanwhile, Su Yu could only acknowledge that the Death Realm was truly massive. They had spent an entire day flying, but according to He Tu, this was merely a tiny part of the Death Realm. It felt as though not even the Allheaven Battlefield was this big. And that was the truth.

Chapter 1533: Grand Cycle Apertures (2)

After a while, Su Yu finally saw a black hole in front of him. It was floating below the Celestial River of Death. Some weak death spirits were roaming blankly in the vicinity.

He Tu pointed at the black hole and said, "That's the black hole. Previously, a whirlpool formed in it out of nowhere. When I came to check out of curiosity, I was transferred toward the mansion entrances."

He looked at Dummy with an odd expression and said, "This guy seemed familiar with the way. Was he here before?"

Su Yu was surprised to hear that. Was Xian Chen here before? No way, right?

"Senior Xia Chen, were you here before?"

Dummy stared at the black hole blankly. After a long while, he said, "I...know...know this...place..."

Then, death qi covered his eyes, removing the tiny bit of clarity he had. Su Yu felt very helpless. This was annoying. Dummy did not have the ability to explain anything clearly. He didn't know what to say anymore.

So be it. He decided to give up and focus on the 360 apertures for now. He wasted no time and soared into the sky after a short pause.

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A short while later.

After going through the long, dark tunnel, Su Yu finally saw light again. A starry sky unfolded before him. He had to admit that seeing such a view in a place as desolate as the Death Realm was a form of pleasure.

Hundreds of stars floated in the sky.

After looking at the sky and comparing the stars with his apertures, he became wild with joy.

This was indeed the aperture chart. He was certain. Sure enough, his guess was right. This was a chart depicting the locations of all 360 apertures.

At the moment, all the stars were dim.

They were inactive. Since they were inactive, they would naturally not display the correct circulation route. But that did not matter.

Su Yu was gasping in excitement. He only needed to open all his apertures. The moment that happened, he might be able to enter the Mountainsea Realm directly. He could finally fuse his apertures.

Previously, his acupoints had fused automatically, with each forty basic acupoints fusing into one.

If the same thing happened with his apertures as well, he would be able to become a ninth-stage Mountainsea in willpower. There was a difference between willpower and physical cultivation.

The lack of a proper aperture cultivation method would not matter too much for the moment. It would only affect him at the Sunmoon or Invincible Realms.

"Will I be fine with only thirty characters?"

The disassembly method had been developed enough to work for Mountainseas. They were starting to experiment on Sunmoons as well. He should be fine advancing without sufficient characters. He could still fill his character technique with more characters as a Sunmoon.

Su Yu had recently shifted his focus to natural characters.

While Su Yu stared at the sky with joy, He Tu focused on the sky and nodded, "I didn't pay attention previously, but this is indeed a chart of the aperture locations. Back then, I didn't open too many of my apertures..."

He paused and frowned, "What's the point of leaving the aperture chart here? Only the dead can reach this place. What can this do for the dead when the dead can't cultivate their acupoints and apertures?"

Su Yu speculated, "Perhaps this was prepared for the living as well. Or perhaps back then, the living could be found in the Death Realm as well."

He Tu did not say anything. He couldn't be bothered to speculate. It was of no interest to him.

He looked at Su Yu and asked, "Are you sure you can open all 360 apertures?"

That was the biggest question.

Su Yu inhaled deeply, looked at the sky, and said, "I'll try. I have opened 290 apertures so far. It won't be easy to open the remaining apertures. I'll try to open ten per day and finish it in seven days."

Then, he took out a pile of treasures, including a large amount of riversand. All these were willpower treasures. He Tu said nothing and flew toward one of the stars before stepping on it. He wasn't worried about being transferred into the mansion again.

After inspecting the star for a bit, he shook his head, "It's not working anymore. It seems to lack energy. Maybe it will be active again when the month is up."

If not, they would need to wait ten years for the next opening.

Su Yu was unconcerned about that. He only cared about the apertures. As for the mansion, he wouldn't mind even if he couldn't enter it again anytime soon.

"As long as I can open all my apertures, I can find my yin aperture. With a completed yang acupoint, I'll be able to freely open or close it."

Even so, he needed an energy supply during the process of opening his apertures. Xing Yue...seemed to be insufficient in this aspect. If he had to rely only on himself, it would take too long. Before long, Su Yu stopped thinking and sat down cross-legged. After taking another look at the stars in the sky, he started opening his apertures.

Inside his sea of willpower, 290 apertures shone brightly. Some were stronger than the others.

Su Yu took a look at them and frowned. He might not be able to smoothly fuse them. Back then, he had consumed some sunmoon profound yellow liquid, strengthening some of his apertures. Thus, there was an imbalance between the strength of his apertures. He could only achieve balance if he could consume more sunmoon profound yellow liquid.

"There's no rush."

His apertures were still far too weak in comparison with his acupoints. He wasn't even too bothered about his willpower advancement. He only wanted to open his yin aperture.

"Don't cause trouble."

Su Yu pushed the little furball to the corner of his sea of willpower and said, "Go play with yourself. Don't disturb me when I'm opening my apertures."

The little furball did not seem to mind. He flew into the Mark of Civilization and lay atop the culture and radiance characters instead. With the Mark of Civilization as an alternative, he was no longer so concerned about Su Yu's sea of willpower. The two characters in the book were very yummy as well.

When Su Yu saw the furball lying atop the two characters, he blanked out slightly.

Right!

The little furball had always said that the golden book smelled nice. Su Yu himself had concluded that the golden book was a weapon of the Time Sage. And the little furball had never shown any interest in weapons.

In that case, there might be some hidden characters in the golden book as well.

Su Yu's eyes flickered. That might be the case.

The Time Sage might have planted some characters into the golden book like him.

Characters...

Su Yu exhaled. He rarely used the golden book nowadays. He would only use it on special occasions, such as when he obtained some valuable blood essence. Perhaps he could find a chance to fuse the golden book with his Mark of Civilization...

Just as that thought crossed his mind, the golden book trembled slightly.

Noticing that, Su Yu narrowed his eyes.

Interesting.

What an incredible weapon. It had gained a tiny bit of sentience. Like the cauldron he found previously, it had the ability to sense some of his thoughts.

Whatever.

Su Yu started absorbing the willpower in the pile of treasures before him.

During his Cloudbreach transformations, he had absorbed some power of laws. Some was still left even after feeding the little furball. The remaining power of laws would be the best power supply for opening more apertures.

What a pity that he didn't know the locations of these apertures before this. He could have used the power of laws to open them all even if he had to delay his transformations.

The more apertures one opened, the harder it would be to open more apertures. But the power of laws was powerful enough to overcome that difficulty.

Boom!

Suddenly, a new star lit up in his sea of willpower. That was the 291st aperture. This was an impressive speed. With his eyes shut, Su Yu continued opening more. 292, 293...

One aperture after another lit up. One treasure after another was crushed to supply himself with energy. It didn't even matter if these treasures were suited for this purpose. Wastage was not a concern for him right now.

Some of these treasures were better for acupoint opening, but Su Yu did not care. He would extract all the willpower from these treasures before purifying the willpower with the riversand.

300...310...

As Su Yu opened his apertures, time passed.

He Tu and the others waited in silence.

For death spirits, the time Su Yu needed to open his apertures couldn't even be considered a long time. Thus, they could easily stay patient.

After a while, He Tu sent Xing Yue a voice transmission due to his boredom, "Are you not taking this chance to kill him? He has grown to a point where you can no longer fully convert him. After opening the heaven acupoint, he won't even need to absorb your death qi anymore. But that might change when he's in a difficult battle. It is only a matter of time before he sucks you dry."

Xing Yue answered with a cold glare.

He Tu laughed and said, "Are you thinking of being resurrected by him? Let me be honest. It is extremely difficult. Back then, I attempted to resurrect the death sovereign who had converted me. Alas, he burst apart. He died before the process could be completed. I didn't even want that. I wanted him to stay alive. I wanted him to leave the Death Realm and help me for real. But he died. Su Yu has zero experience with this. You will be the first person he attempts to resurrect. And for a first attempt, the likelihood of failure is extremely high."

Xing Yue glared at He Tu for a long while before giving a short reply, "Fool."

He Tu blanked out slightly. Then, he asked furiously, "Did you scold me?"

Xing Yue ignored him. Yes. What about it? Would he dare to hit her? It wasn't like she was scared of him.

Xing Yue couldn't even be bothered to say anything else. She continued absorbing the death imprint while thinking...thinking...this was something she hadn't done for a very long time. She loved this feeling. Thus, she enjoyed it in silence.

What did He Tu know? All death spirits had died once. What was the big deal about dying again? At the very least, Su Yu would allow her to feel many new emotions, such as fury, excitement, surprise, deep contemplation, and so on.

Su Yu's existence had reminded her that she was no longer a death spirit ruled only by her desire to kill. He had reminded her that she had other emotions as well. He made her feel...alive again.

He Tu only cared about life and death, about benefits, and nothing else. As for Xing Yue, she considered a lot more than that. She enjoyed all the different sensations she was feeling now.

He Tu would never understand this. How could someone who only cared about hegemony understand this? Slowly, some old memories returned to her.

Xing Yue spent a long time immersing herself in her memories. Suddenly, she said, "The moment he opens his heaven acupoint, he will no longer suffer from the restrictions. He can open and close it at any time. When he finishes fusing all his acupoints and apertures, the heaven acupoint alone will be a manifestation of his strength. He will no longer require external power to support himself."

"Hmm?" He Tu blanked out slightly and asked, "You know about the heaven acupoint?"

The heaven acupoint was not something any regular person could open. It required the completion of soul apertures and source acupoints. Someone capable of doing that was extremely rare even during the ancient past.

Xing Yue replied coldly, "Why can't I know about it? It's not like nobody has ever opened the heaven acupoint in the ancient past."

"Just who are you?" He Tu asked curiously, "You know Martial King, and you even know about the heaven acupoint. I suspect that you're not a nobody prior to your death."

Xing Yue ignored him. She knew more than he could imagine. She was simply unbothered to tell him more.

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He Tu continued, "Do you know about those who are still alive? Just where are they right now?"

He gnashed his teeth and said, "Is there really a connection between the world of the living and the world of the dead? Back when I opened the death tunnel in the world of the living, the death spirits emerging out of it weren't the local death spirits. Where did they come from? There were a lot of them, and they were all incredibly strong. Did someone stab me in the back?"

At the end of the first epoch, he had gained a massive advantage over the myriad races. Ultimately, he failed because of the death spirits. Due to the line he crossed, the old turtle was forced to deal with him on behalf of the heavenly laws.

He did not hate the old turtle for that. Back then, he had reached an agreement with the old turtle. Alas, he had courted the fury of the heavenly laws. If the old turtle allowed him to continue, the thirty-six guardians would be affected as well. Because they would take the blame for their failure in stopping him.

The thirty-six guardians were at a real risk of death. To protect the guardians, the old turtle was forced to kill him. With his death, the first epoch ended with the defeat of humanity.

Over the years, He Tu had been paying close attention to the world of the living. Alas, he was unable to leave due to the old turtle. He saw a lot of things, but he couldn't be sure since he was merely a bystander in many of the things he noticed.

Did Xing Yue know anything?

Xing Yue remained silent.

"Su Yu will be the second me." He Tu said, "It is only a matter of time. We are too alike. Like me, he is an ancient city mayor. Like me, he borrows the power of the Death Realm. Like me, he intends to wage war with an army of death spirits. Without knowing more, he might end up dying to the old turtle as well. For the old turtle, Heavendoom and the others are a lot more important than Su Yu."

Going against the laws would result in the deaths of the thirty-six guardians. They could avoid the punishment by killing Su Yu. In such a situation, the old turtle would most certainly opt to side with his fellow guardians.

With a frown, Xing Yue said, "I don't know! I'm dead! How am I supposed to know? But I do know that the Death Realm is not masterless."

He Tu narrowed his eyes and asked, "You even knew about the Death Realm prior to your death?"

"No, I only knew a little..."

After a slight hesitation, Xing Yue switched to voice transmission, "The Death Realm has a master. The Human Emperor might have appointed a Death King back then. I don't remember more than that."

She looked at He Tu and asked, "You have been roaming everywhere all these years. Have you not discovered anything?"

"I discovered nothing major." After thinking about it, He Tu said, "When some people awaken from the Celestial River of Death, a strand of death qi will vanish from each of them. Someone must have harvested the death qi for recording. Someone might be gathering the information of all experts in the Death Realm.

"Secondly, to the east, we will reach the end of the region. The Celestial River of Death acts as the wall. I once tried crossing it, but I failed since the violent waves of the river nearly killed me. I suspect that the other side is still a part of the Death Realm.

"Thirdly, a hundred thousand years have passed from the first epoch until now. However, the number of awakened fellows is far lower than expected, as though some people have vanished completely.

"Fourthly, thanks to the life death fruit I consumed and the old turtle's leniency in letting me keep my body, I was able to transform into a death spirit directly with some of my past memories. I was able to hide under the Grand Dream City, but none of the main characters of the other epochs could be found in the Death Realm."

He Tu was not someone who had awakened from the Celestial River of Death. Rather, he had transformed directly in his own body before becoming the master of the region beneath Grand Dream City.

"Thus, I once speculated that those people might not be in this region. That's especially true for the main character of the ninth epoch, someone near the realm of the ancient human kings. The arrival of someone so powerful at the Celestial River of Death would create a massive scene, but no such thing happened."

Humanity had produced a hegemon during the ninth epoch. That hegemon was incomparably powerful, but he still ended up dead. However, he was nowhere to be found in the Death Realm. It had been ten thousand years since then.

Even Xia Chen had awakened. Where was that man? The stronger one was, the harder it would be for one to awaken. But there should be some traces of his presence if he was really around, right? However, He Tu had not encountered too many Dafouses in the Death Realm.

Xing Yue blanked out for a long while before saying, "I'm not sure as well. In that case, is this region merely a small part of the Death Realm?"

"Yes." He Tu nodded, "Those fellows who had caused my failure back then might not have originated from this region at all."

He continued, "One more thing. During the previous epoch, the previous Devil Pseudo Emperor entered the Death Realm before dying from serious injuries. But how many people here had the ability to do so? It was said that he only died after entering the Celestial River of Death. He was injured by the powerful death spirits there. But you have been there before as well. Did the powerful existences there ever attack you?"

"Rarely."

He Tu said, "Thus, the death of the Devil Pseudo Emperor is one big mystery. He might not have been injured by the death sovereigns from our region. Rather, he was injured by an outsider."

Xing Yue said nothing. She wasn't too interested in this.

He Tu said, "Don't think that this is unrelated to you. Yanmo might be a good opportunity. The previous Devil Pseudo Emperor must have tried to resurrect someone before failing and settling on Yanmo since he was already here. The devils have been trying to resurrect him. And how are they doing it? Su Yu might need to pay them a visit if he really wants to start resurrecting death spirits."

Xing Yue's eyes flickered slightly. Perhaps. Yanmo wasn't even that strong. He was roughly a sixth-degree Eternal. However, he was definitely stronger before his death. Upon resurrection, he might regain his previous strength. Thus, he would be quite a useful target to resurrect.

However, he might not be the main target. The devil race might be planning something else, such as resurrecting the previous Devil Pseudo Emperor.

That was a truly impressive expert. The ninth epoch had produced countless top experts. Blood Fire Devil King was one of them, but even he was merely a side character in the ninth epoch. If even a side character was a ninth-degree Eternal, one could only imagine how powerful the ninth epoch was.

He Tu did most of the talking as the two continued conversing.

Time passed slowly.

The pile of treasures before Su Yu kept reducing in size. Eventually, he was starting to use even dragonblood fruits to supply himself with willpower. He was also using the solidwater pearls, Emperor's Saliva, and anything he could get his hands on.

He would squeeze every bit of willpower he could from these treasures before purifying the willpower with the riversand. Clearly, he was in great need of willpower. He was willing to exhaust his treasures in a completely inefficient manner just to supply himself with more willpower.

Anyone else would cry from the sight of such wastage. But Su Yu knew one thing well. His treasures would only be his when he was strong enough. If he were weak, he would die and all his treasures would be others. Thus, nothing was more important than strength.

At this point, there were 350 shining stars in his sea of willpower. He was left with only ten. However, he was almost out of treasures.

He sank into hesitation.

Suddenly, he formed a hand with his willpower and dragged the little furball, who was busy licking the two characters in the book, out. The little furball blanked out. What was it this time?

Was Yummy killing the ball?

Was Yummy still thinking of this after witnessing how strong his dada was?

"Spit some willpower and power of laws out."

"Ah?"

"Stop pretending." Su Yu rolled his eyes and said, "How much can you digest with this tiny body of yours? I know your capacity well. Each time, you will eat more and store some as snacks. Do you think I don't know that? Stop wasting time. Spit some out. When I grow strong enough, I'll kill Tiangu and let you eat him. Not even your dada can kill Tiangu, but I can. Come on. Stop wasting time."

"I...I only have a little bit left..."

The little furball spat some power of law out. Su Yu hurriedly absorbed the power. With a rumble, his 351st aperture opened. Then, he stared at the little furball silently.

With a greatly sorrowful expression, the little furball spat a bit out and declared, "This is all I have."

Boom!

The 352nd aperture opened.

"I'm really out..."

Eventually, the little furball spat a tiny bit out again while sulking. Next, Su Yu opened his 353rd aperture.

Slowly but surely, the little furball was emptied of his savings.

When the 358th aperture opened, the little furball started crying loudly.

"I'm really out! No more! Really! Yummy, I don't have any left!"

He cried pitifully.

Yummy had emptied him!

Yummy was so mean!

He had transformed into a beggar ball from a rich ball.

In truth, Su Yu was quite alarmed at how much the furball was capable of hiding. The furball had hidden enough to open eight of his apertures. No wonder. No wonder the little fellow had seemed rather disinterested in his treasures as of late.

So the little furball had hidden his own treasure pile away. Was that really all?

Seeing that the little furball was crying so sorrowfully, he tossed a few characters over and said, "Go lick them at the side. The fuck are you crying for?"

"Wuwuwuwu!"

The little furball continued crying even as he licked the characters with a sorrowful expression. He was greatly saddened. He wouldn't have agreed without the promise to feed him Tiangu.

Meanwhile, Su Yu was feeling troubled over his two remaining apertures. He was so near. Where else could he get more willpower? He searched his storage space. Soon, his eyes landed on some other items. He gnashed his teeth and decided to use them as well.

These were the Invincible notes he had received previously. After burning a few of them previously, he was left with a few. He also had the Time technique written by Silk Destroying King and the Sky Sundering Saber written by Xia Longwu with him.

These were the willpower texts written by top experts. He had decided to burn them all. He only needed enough to open his two remaining apertures. As he burned the books, one more aperture opened.

After more time, when Su Yu ran out of all his treasures, his final aperture started to open.

Su Yu was overjoyed. Damn it! He had finally succeeded! The final aperture was opening! He was unsure if the heavenly laws would send him some rewards from the Human Emperor here as well. If that happened, it could only signify that the Human Emperor's rule extended to even the Death Realm.

That would be truly impressive.

Ruling over both the living and the dead.

Just then, one shiny cloud after another appeared above them. He Tu and Xing Yue blanked out. Heavenly rewards? This was extremely rare in the Death Realm. Had Su Yu...succeeded?

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At the same time.

Inside a certain hall, the death spirits opened their eyes again. On the mirror, numerous dots of light were undulating. One of them said doubtfully, "The power of laws is reacting intensely. What's happening? Are the laws transferring someone? Is a powerful death spirit awakening?"

"Should we send some scouts over?"

"It's too far. It will take too long..."

"We still need to do it. He Tu is right there. Back then, he entered the Death Realm from the world of the living instead of rising from the river. He is rather hard to control. We need to keep an eye on him."

"It won't be easy. The Spirit Suppression General has been interfering with our monitoring there."

"That old bastard..."

They felt helpless at the mention of the Spirit Suppression General. He might be known as a general, but he was probably as strong as a marquis.

Even during the ancient past, someone like that could be considered a top expert. And He Tu was under his protection. Yes. His protection. With He Tu in his territory, any death sovereign would need to think twice before trying anything against He Tu.

After all, the old turtle was as strong as an ancient marquis. In fact, he would have been appointed a marquis if the ancient past had not collapsed. Now that the descendant of Devote King was staying in his territory, nobody would dare to try anything funny.

"Sigh."

The death spirits sighed helplessly. They still had to do their job. They simply had to avoid provoking the old turtle.

Chapter 1535: Return (1)

Shining clouds were appearing in the sky.

One after another.

"Grand cycle stars. The Human Emperor sends his blessings."

Su Yu opened his eyes and stared at the sky speechlessly. Was this something set up by a lazy subordinate of the Human Emperor? Previously, he had received a similar message after opening all his acupoints. Why was there only a small change in the message? It felt as though there was a template for all these messages.

Nearby, both He Tu and Xing Yue were blanking out as they stared at the sky. He Tu muttered, "Can the heavenly blessings really reach the Death Realm as well?"

He had never seen this before. However, Su Yu was already used to this. Since the blessings this time were related to his apertures, the rewards would either be willpower, characters, or power of laws.

Generally, he could only harvest some power of laws when a tribulation and a reward appeared at the same time. Most of the time, it wouldn't be easy to get some. The clouds started dropping upon Su Yu.

All 360 of his apertures shone brightly. Unfortunately, they differed in size. However, that problem did not remain for long. When the first cloud dropped on Su Yu, he blanked out. The power in the cloud felt similar to the sunmoon profound yellow liquid. Or to be precise, it was slightly better.

Su Yu's eyes flickered. Two possibilities had just opened up before him. Firstly, he could strengthen his characters. Secondly, he could strengthen his apertures and become a Mountainsea. An advancement would strengthen his characters automatically. But if he wasn't able to fully advance, it would be much harder to further strengthen his characters.

After a slight hesitation, he decided to strengthen his apertures. He could strengthen his apertures and let them fuse automatically to reach the ninth-stage Mountainsea. That would strengthen his characters automatically. This was perhaps the better option for him.

Inside his head, the little furball looked eager to grab a feast. Su Yu hurriedly said, "You can't eat this time. I don't even have enough for myself. You can eat next time. Remember, I promised you Tiangu."

"You're a liar! You can't kill Tiangu!"

The little furball protested pitifully. He knew that this was a lie.

This was but a dream.

Yummy was very strong, but not enough to kill Tiangu. He might need to wait a long time before Yummy was strong enough to kill Tiangu. The little furball was sad. His savings had been emptied. Could he not eat a little bit here? Content orıginally comes from novｅlfire.net

"Don't worry. I can't kill Tiangu yet, but I can kill some other immortals. They are all yummy. What's the rush?"

Su Yu continued placating the little furball. He needed to advance smoothly without any disturbance. Upon advancement, he might even receive more rewards. He had concluded that these days, the heavenly laws were the best to milk.

He started strengthening his apertures. All 360 apertures started spinning by themselves. These movements were different from the movement of a proper cultivation method. Clearly, a proper cultivation method was required to properly utilize hem. Su Yu was in no rush. For now, he could focus only on advancement.

One aperture after another started consuming the power in the clouds.

After a while, Xing Yue vanished with a flicker. Before long, a rumble rang out not far away. A random death spirit had wandered over. Perhaps this was one of the normal wandering death spirits who had arrived by coincidence.

He Tu smiled and said, "This talent..."

Seven days.

Su Yu had successfully opened his apertures in only seven days.

What a monster.

Was bottleneck a thing for Su Yu? He Tu sank into thought. Su Yu's talent was a tad bit too monstrous. Was this due to his bloodline? Or was this due to some other reason?

Meanwhile, Su Yu was too busy to consider all that. He was busy consuming his rewards. All his apertures shone brightly while his sea of willpower trembled as it expanded. Above the sea, a floating hammer appeared. It was the Soul Expanding Hammer.

Beside the Soul Expanding Hammer was the character technique with ninety-nine slots. At the moment, only twenty-eight characters floated around the character technique. Among them, the blood character was a Sunmoon character. The rest were also showing signs of advancement.

Slowly, the apertures reached a balance, shining at a similar level of intensity. By this point, Su Yu was almost done absorbing the heavenly rewards.

Boom!

Abruptly, the 360 stars above the sea of willpower started moving. Forty of them started coming together. This was the sign of an advancement into the Mountainsea Realm. An advancement for willpower cultivation.

Su Yu's willpower cultivation had always been faster, but his physical cultivation had always been stronger. His willpower cultivation was very effective at supportive functions, but it wasn't particularly strong.

As Su Yu focused on his willpower, he noted that even with 360 apertures, as a ninth-stage Cloudbreach, he would barely be able to kill a Sunmoon. That was far too weak compared to his physical cultivation.

Yes. Even with his willpower alone, he was already confident he could kill Sunmoons. In short, he was already as strong as Mo Duona relying on his willpower alone.

Boom!

Once again, the sea of willpower shook. The forty apertures started fusing. Su Yu did not have the proper aperture fusion method. He had broken his promise to Wu Lan. He had once said that he would name the method after her. Alas, he had not been able to figure out the method.

He sighed helplessly. What could he do about it? His apertures had decided to fuse themselves without the assistance of a fusion method. How was he supposed to derive a fusion method if they were fusing themselves? Should he rename the grand cycle aperture method when he received it instead? That would be useful when one was fusing the final nine apertures.

As Su Yu contemplated all that, the Soul Expanding Hammer started growing stronger. After his recent rapid growth in physical cultivation, the Soul Expanding Hammer was becoming more and more useless for him.

But with the advancement of his willpower cultivation, would it grow enough to stun a middle-stage Sunmoon with a single hit? Or perhaps it would grow strong enough to collapse the willpower of a sixth-stage Sunmoon with one hit.

The Soul Expanding Hammer was a truly powerful willpower technique.

Boom!

His sea of willpower continued growing and strengthening. The forty apertures were still in the middle of fusion.

Ten, twenty, thirty...

By the time the fusion was complete, forty became one and his sea of willpower expanded yet again with a rumble. Up in the sky, more shining clouds appeared. These were his rewards for his advancement into the Mountainsea Realm.

Previously, he had been rewarded for opening his apertures. The rewards seemed to be a lot more generous in comparison to his physical cultivation rewards. Back then, he had only been rewarded after completing his body fusion. Meanwhile, he had received rewards twice in a row for his willpower cultivation.

This time, the rewards did not arrive together with the Human Emperor's blessings. The clouds contained nothing except willpower. With the rewards, Su Yu focused only on his character.

It was time to strengthen his characters. The blood character had reached the Sunmoon Realm, but he had other characters to advance as well.

Su Yu intended to push the calm, tribulation, deceit, and change characters to the fifth tier as well.

Additionally, the pass and slow characters needed to grow. As for the culture and radiance characters, both were already Sunmoon characters. There was no need to worry about them as they would grow alongside his Mark of Civilization.

Even after becoming a Mountainsea in willpower cultivation, Su Yu did not think that he would have enough willpower to use.

"I still need more willpower. Maybe I can consider borrowing the willpower grotto next time."

The willpower grotto would be very helpful thanks to the large amount of riversand he had gathered recently.

It was time to focus on his characters. He couldn't rely on only the heavenly rewards to grow his characters. After all, he had grown enough that not even killing an Invincible would guarantee a heavenly reward anymore. What was he supposed to do?

Upgrading to killing Pseudo Emperors?

Perhaps.

As Su Yu absorbed the willpower from the clouds, the little furball salivated. He wanted to eat as well, but Yummy did not have enough to share. Yummy was not feeding him anymore! It had been a while since the little furball became a Mountainsea. He had eaten a lot of good stuff after his advancement. Unfortunately, the Sunmoon Realm still seemed far away for him.

Su Yu had no idea how advancement worked for the little furball. In any case, he had not seen any signs of advancement on the little furball. With his rapid growth, he would outgrow the little furball's usefulness soon.

In the past, the little furball could play a big role in battles by eating the characters or willpower of strong opponents. But now, Su Yu had grown enough to kill a Sunmoon with a mere slap while the little furball would have a hard time even damaging the willpower of a Sunmoon.

Suddenly, one of his characters shone brightly.

Tribulation.

That was the first characer Su Yu had chosen to advance. It was a natural character.

It was also an important character he relied on to predict incoming dangers.

The tribulation character shook rapidly before releasing a final eruption of light. Then, it dimmed down and returned to maintaining a low profile. That was its natural state whenever no danger was detected.

Then, Su Yu hesitated. Which character should he upgrade next?

Calm?

That was a very convenient character as well, especially when he wanted to rob or sneak attack someone. It could weaken the perception and hide the detection of his opponents. However, it was not a natural character.

Just as Su Yu was contemplating the matter, a certain treacherous character came alive and shot into one of the clouds. Instantly, the darkish character advanced without making any noise.

Yes. Even when advancing into a Sunmoon character, it stayed incredibly inconspicuous.

After finishing the meal, it vanished again.

Su Yu's mouth twitched.

W...what the...what could he say here?

When did that character learn to steal?

Yes. The deceit character had advanced just like that.

Su Yu was left quite speechless. But that was a useful character as well. It was extremely helpful in concealment, especially when it was used alongside the change and calm characters.

But that wasn't the point. Su Yu had not considered advancing it yet. Why did it advance by itself?

Su Yu looked at his remaining willpower helplessly. The leftover was not enough to push another character to the Sunmoon Realm. So be it. He might as well use the remaining willpower on his new characters instead.

The pass and saint characters.

The ability to blink through space was very important.

The saint character was very important as well. It could increase the trust others would have on him. He could settle with upgrading both of them to the fourth tier.

Before long, the willpower from the heavenly rewards was used up. The two new characters successfully reached the fourth tier.

With this, the culture, radiance, blood, tribulation, and deceit characters became the five Sunmoon characters in Su Yu's possession. The rest were all Mountainsea characters.

Such a composition was already comparable to the compositions of many Invincibles. Or to be precise, that was already comparable to the compositions of many human Invincibles.

After all, there were no Invincible characters among the human race.